How to noindex image URLs | WordPress.org

tark94
(@tark94)

5 years, 8 months ago

Is there a way in WordPress to set URLs of images to noindex so they don’t appear in Google image search results?

Note, here I’m not talking about attachment pages, but about the actual image URLs appearing in posts.

Thanks!

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

Liew Cheon-Fong
(@lcf)

5 years, 8 months ago

you can use robots.txt to prevent Google index your images

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35308
Samuel O.
(@wpcoworker)

5 years, 8 months ago
Adding following to robots.txt should do the job:
```
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
```
This will disable indexing of any future images. Previously indexed images would stil keep showing in the google image search. To remove old images as well, you may try resubmitting the sitemap to google.

Please check this support article from google for more details.
Thread Starter tark94
(@tark94)

5 years, 8 months ago

(I don’t really have image URLs in the sitemap, except that there’s a # of images column)

Got it. So first manually remove the URLs with the Remove URLs tool, then change robots.txt to then block further crawling.

Question: which user agent in robots.txt to use to block crawling by all search engines?

Liew Cheon-Fong
(@lcf)

5 years, 8 months ago

User-agent: *

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

The topic ‘How to noindex image URLs’ is closed to new replies.

Tags

In: Everything else WordPress
4 replies
3 participants
Last reply from: Liew Cheon-Fong
Last activity: 5 years, 8 months ago
Status: not resolved

Topics

Topics with no replies

Non-support topics

Resolved topics

Unresolved topics

All topics